Szczecin
— — a port that has had many names.
Not only on a wall.
“A port city on the Oder near the German border, the historic capital of West Pomerania and, under its earlier German name Stettin, one of the great Hanseatic and Prussian harbours on the Baltic. The Pomeranian Dukes' Castle on the high terrace and the long balustrade of Wały Chrobrego look out over the river to a working port that still moves grain and timber. from the studio
Szczecin, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
Szczecin is the capital of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in north-western Poland, about 12 kilometres from the German border and 65 kilometres inland from the Baltic via the Oder River and the Szczecin Lagoon. The city has a population of about 390,000 and is the seventh-largest in Poland. It was for most of its history a German-speaking city under the name Stettin, capital of the Duchy of Pomerania and later a major Prussian port, before its transfer to Poland after the Second World War.
The Oder runs through the centre of Szczecin and divides the old terrace city from the river islands of Łasztownia and the working port beyond. The river connects the city to the Szczecin Lagoon and, through the Świnoujście strait, to the open Baltic, 65 kilometres downstream. The Port of Szczecin and the linked port of Świnoujście together handle around 30 million tonnes of cargo a year, mostly grain, coal, and timber, and remain among the busiest harbours on the southern Baltic coast.
The Pomeranian Dukes' Castle (Zamek Książąt Pomorskich), on the high left bank above the Oder, was the seat of the House of Griffin from the 14th century until the dynasty ended in 1637. Heavily bombed in 1944 and rebuilt in its Renaissance form between 1958 and 1980, it now houses concerts and the regional museum. South of the castle, the wide balustrade of Wały Chrobrego — the Chrobry Embankment, completed in 1909 under the German name Hakenterrasse — runs above the river for about 500 metres.